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These people should be put into a Thailand jail and an announcement mistakenly

made just after they have been put into a general prison population area. I wonder

how long they would last before finding a bit of fluids leaving their bodies in a

most unkind manner. Maybe a few times something like this could happen, and

then maybe the horrible corruption in Thailand would start to lessen.

Just my humble opinion on this matter.

Thanks Brer Fox for putting this story straight.

I guess I will be a snow bird and see Thailand when I can for a few Winter months each year.

I may be interested in owning a condo in the future, but for now I do not want to stay for

more than a few months when I can afford to. I do want to visit Vietnam, but my Vietnamese friend

says to wait for a while longer before trying to hope for a good life in Vietnam. he says that he

still is afraid to go back even to visit. He told me of the horror he lived before escaping Vietnam to come live in Canada.

Way to go Burma government, Pass the Buck, why don't you!

D'uh, Disgusting is what this story is, as it does show

that Burma has not changed very much at all!

The problem is not so much in Thailand not wanting to have to house, feed, and

help these people, as it is the people who are involved with this people

trafficking! Thailand already has problems with their own Muslims, and their own people, do you actually think

Thailand needs more refugees! There should be an island on the Andaman sea that

is considered to be a no country island. Any refugees that are fleeing countries like

Burma or India or Bangladesh could be stopped at the island and UN and other countries

can pay money and resources to either help these people go to a better life, or back

to their own countries. I know that this is not a best style of solution, but neither

is a bunch of people paying the bad guys so that they can escape their country for

what ever reasons they are, just to put a bourdon on the countries that they escape

to. Europe and Asia have their own problems without having these people thrust upon them.

I may seem hard hearted, but there has to be a better solution than a bunch of

countries being financially stressed by refugees.

The big word is Corruption! It seems that some people just do not understand

that the corruption in the past is what causes Thailand to continue to have its problems.

I do hope that the present PM can make a dent in the past corruption, and that a lot

more people in politics, or police force or military, get found out and charged.

They should be happy that they do not live in North Korea and have to

face an anti-aircraft weapon. Just saying!

RIP to these 2 fellas and their families and friends.

Thailand is not a first world country, and it does not have the same

laws as one. This is understood by all who live there. No surprise.

Any deaths to people who are enjoying their holidays is just tragic, and

I do hope that I can enjoy a lot more trips to Thailand and other exotic

and tropical countries before I am gone.

This is a very sad story!

Darn, now I have to go somewhere else, for my jollies. At least there are lots

of massage parlours still around! I still like visiting both at, Hua Hin and Cha Am and the area, so

guess I have to tame myself down. Maybe the police were not getting enough pleasures

or baht, and hence the raid!

While president Obama and Putin are the leaders in their countries, there will be no changes.

No changes especially in Russia, where even the opposition members get assassinated.

I do not see Russia changing until the people get rid of Putin and his present government.

That should be the shipping containers to Nepal in the first place.

It sounds like Nepal will be getting some large aftershocks for a while yet, and

for a lot of months as well. It is one part of the world that could use help in

rebuilding with earthquake resistant houses. I hope the hotel companies that

have to rebuild will certainly use their huge reserves to rebuild with the best

materials that are available. I seen a documentary that showed, shipping

containers being used to build a house, it looked pretty earthquake proof, and

not too bad to live in as well. I guess the biggest challenge would be getting

the shipping to Nepal in the first place.

I do hope that the people of Nepal get the help that they all need.

I also do hope that the government, military and police of Nepal are

not too corrupt and are possibly keeping the people in need from receiving the

help and supplies they need with their villages, and towns in Nepal. I saw a media

clip on people fixing up a temple area, hauling the debris away and

talking about rebuilding, when the houses in the area were all still

falling down, and not getting any repairs. I just wondered, what the bleep is going on with

these people. Another news clip showed people in one village getting no help at all , when a truck was going past

with supplies for a village further from Kathmandu that had privately paid to get relief supplies

sent to them. That was when I figured out that there is indeed lots of corruption in that

poor country. This kind of thing also happened in Haiti when they needed all the help after their earthquake.

The corrupt government and gangs, would keep ships from unloading needed relief supplies

until they got their cut, and money. It was disgusting! At least the Nepalese people seem to be trying to help

with their own places, as in Haiti the people seemed to be happy to have the foreign companies

come into their country and to a lot of the rebuilding work, while they just hung around.

There was even some documentaries made from some of the people involved with the

relief and rebuilding of Haiti.

Of course this is only my humble opinion of the world and the corruption in it.

I have enjoyed the Thai Air service on some flights with that airline in the past, and have to say

it is much better than the service I receive on any AIr Canada flights that operate to

Thailand. I do hope the airline will willing get rid of the corrupt Hi so with the private jet,

no matter who he or she is. It does seem that there are many ways in which almost any airline

can be corrupt, but I hope the thought of cutting maintenance to the jets are not one of them.

One way to save lots of money in any airline around the world is to cut out some of the

top level managers, and even have a CEO that does not need multi million baht per year,

just to call him or her self the CEO of Thai Air or any other airline. Most businesses around the world

have way too many people in places where they do not need to be, especially in management

I just bet that won't happen though!

Is there more camps like this in other parts of Thailand or is it mostly the

south where these type of camps are being found? Makes me wonder if this is how some

of the so called insurgents are making their money?

Every one knows that these kinds of people need to get their money somehow, and I will not

just throw blame on Military or the police force of Thailand, just because so many on this

and other forums seem so quick to do.

That Cobra was certainly big enough. I would have had the heeby jeebys

if I saw something like that in my hotel room. I saw a 1/5 metre cobra once and

avoided it with my motorcycle, it was moving pretty fast as well.

I do like the tropics, and I realize there are snakes, and spiders, jelly fish

and other creatures that can give me a bad day. Guess we have to be

careful even in our hotel rooms.

If China is being dishonest and putting pressure on the Thailand Airline industry,

then no high speed Chinese bullet trains through Thailand. Give that contract to Japan

or some one else. Put pressure on China to stop sending Thailand , defective Chinese tourists, who

can barely act like modern humans. Make the Chinese people learn to quit spitting everywhere

and using public bathrooms like they don't know sh*t from Shinola, and maybe to be polite and

not throw their cigarette butts everywhere as well, oh I guess they are not the only ones to do that!.

Just my 2 cents worth of opinion.

Captured members of Boko Haram should be injected with a vitamin shot,

containing some very contagious diseases, like a common cold from somewhere

in the world, the flu, measles, mumps, etc., and dropped off near where the rest are suspected of still

hiding in that large forested area. They would then go to their various camps, infecting

other members, until the lot of them are too sick to fight. When they start to recover,

send in some more of them infected with other curable but effective germs to make them even weaker.

After that send some back with some eye drops in their eyes that make them look like they

got infected with Ebola, and see how friendly they will be to each other, and supportive of each other.

There are some ways that these groups could be dealt with that would make them scatter and

not be the big terrorists that they think they are. Just my opinion of course, and I am Barbaric!

I am afraid that the world is not the same place it was 10 20 or 30 years ago.

Morals have changed a lot, and so has decency, respect, consideration, concern,

gratitude, and a lot of other words that I can not think of this minute.

The F word was not used back then half as much as it is today, as well as all of the

other filthy words, that I even get to hear in movies or bars or on the street.

Great that I won't be around another 50 years, as I am not at all sure that I would want to be.

I guess this currier or Mule better be thankful that she was not caught in Indonesia!

I do agree that it is a shame that the Drug lords, are not the people we see caught

and are being ready for a firing squad or the noose. In most places in the world , it is

only the dealers, and mules and low level people involved that get caught and arrested.

What a shame!

I must be a Barbarian, as I support the death penalty for murder in the first degree,

and in Indonesia's case, for drug dealers, as well. Unfortunately for me, my country's government

decided for me and the population of my country, to end the death penalty. I guess

we have become far too civilized to kill off the scum in my country, who should have

stopped breathing, a few months after their trials.

We did have the death penalty when I was a teenager, but sadly it ended after I became an

adult, even though the population in my country never had a vote in the way the

decision was made. And I do live in a democratic country!

Oh well this is just another of my Red Neck opinions!

Certainly be very careful about who you give your very hard earned money to.

I used to donate to Care Canada, years ago until one of the office workers in Ottawa,

let me know that even back then, about 15 to 20 cents of my 1 dollar, actually made it out of Canada

to where it was I thought my money was going. Most of the large companies, like

that and even the Red Cross, has administration costs, building leases, people on full salaries,

CEO's etc., who also want part of the money that you donate, for themselves.

Just Saying! I tend to give my money to people like Doctors without borders, and

groups that actually have a good record of making as much of the money going to their

organization, actually get to the people who really need it.

When a product called New Skin came to Thailand, I was in Bangkok and went to a talk

at the Landmark Hotel. The reps were saying that the audience should buy lots of their products, as there was

no place in the city that was selling it. The next day I went 3 block north to a mall and seen a new store

with products on the shelves and it was opened 2 days later. I warned a bunch of the Thai ladies that

I had seen from the local area, and saved them from being parted from their hard earned money.

Scams happen all of the time, and there are people who are not cautious enough, others

who are maybe stupid enough to lose their money, and some who just make me wonder how

they have any money at all! But I digress, the world goes round and round.

If you think the situation in the south is bad now, just wait, for 10 years or so.

I went there several years ago with my Thai family. Once the train had passed

Surat Thani south bound, they became nervous. We stayed cautious for our time near Pattani and Yala,

and enjoyed seeing some Buddhist temples in the area. The family became relaxed when we got on the train again at

Hat Yai, for the return trip to Bangkok. The situation was tense back then, but has gotten worse

in the last few years.

I do hope that the country of Thailand stays intact, and does not let any part of it become something

else. The people who want to have their area of Thailand to have special status, would be better to go and

live in another country! I just wished this would have happened to Quebec, but that is just another

very controversial story. Just my opinion of course,

as I am just another Red Neck Farang, from the western part of Canada.

I am glad that this Phuket couple have managed to stay alive with this earthquake, and were
able to get a phone report out before the satellite systems went down. I hope they got lots of pictures of their adventure, and
of the earthquakes destruction as well. They are indeed some of the lucky ones, as they will get to come back home to Phuket.
Being high in the mountains likely is why the wife is sick. There is a lot of people in the world who are affected by
high altitudes, and being from Phuket which is very close to sea level is a big strain on the body of anybody.
I think there will hundreds of more people who are eventually found killed or injured by this disaster, as there are
many villages that have not been helped by rescue personal , or anybody else.
RIP to those who have been killed, and good luck to the rest who will be going home in the not so distant
future.

Interesting comments made. I wonder if most of you still want Thaksin or his sister in power?

Really! I am glad that the troubles of Thailand there we all witnessed have been made to stop.

I just hope that some day, Thailand can have a democratic government and society that gets past

being as corrupt as it has been. For those who don't know what corrupt means, drive your motorcycles around without

helmet on as see what the various prices are. Better yet just drive some fancy rented vehicles around, and soon

you will see. Or drive up to some of the fanciest mansions in the country and see who actually has a lot more than one,

and where did they get all of the money needed to own more than one big house or mansion in Thailand.

That my friends and fellow Farangs is a bit of what corruption looks like. Don't worry I see lots of it here in Canada as

well so I do know what I am talking about.

So this is another group of people who have entered another country illegally.

I am glad they were in a holding area, and now if they are trying to get out and

cause trouble, they should be sent back to the country that they came in from, one way

military truck trip to the border, and boot!, go home!

Make the problem become a problem in the country that these people came from.